# 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 / Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — 第三十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 32)

- Law: 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 (Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People), 昭和五十七年法律第八十号
- English title "Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People": Ministry of Justice translation
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- Provision: 第三十二条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 32)（老人保健法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — address `suppl-4181-83/art-32`
- Text in force since: 2026-10-01
- URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4181-83/art-32
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### 第三十二条（老人保健法の一部改正に伴う経過措置） — Transitional Measures Accompanying the Partial Amendment of the Act on Health and Medical Services for the Elderly
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<sup>suppl-4181-83/art-32 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4181-83/art-32 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4181-83/art-32</sup>

**第一項**  第六条又は第七条の規定の施行の日前に行われた診療、薬剤の支給若しくは手当又は老人訪問看護に係るこれらの条の規定による改正前の老人保健法の規定による医療等については、それぞれなお従前の例による。
<sup>suppl-4181-83/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4181-83/art-32/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4181-83/art-32/par-1</sup>
With regard to medical care, etc. under the provisions of the Act on Health and Medical Services for the Elderly before the amendment by the provisions of those Articles, pertaining to medical care, provision of drugs or medical treatment, or home-nursing for the elderly, provided before the date on which the provisions of Article 6 or Article 7 come into effect, the provisions then in force continue to govern, respectively.
<sup>machine translation, not official</sup>

## Cited by

2 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction.

- 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第三十九条第一項 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4181-83/art-39/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4181-83/art-39/par-1
- 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 附則第百三十三条第一項（その他の経過措置の政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/elderly-medical-care-act/suppl-4181-83/art-133/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/357AC0000000080/suppl-4181-83/art-133/par-1

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## Sources

- e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/357AC0000000080/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-19
- Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Act on Assurance of Medical Care for Elderly People — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4903/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19
- claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch elderly-medical-care-act-20261019T112331-018, translated 2026-10-19
- This site's parser, version 209 — 高齢者の医療の確保に関する法律 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19
